books.google.com - `The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of...https://books.google.com/books/about/Walden.html?id=1EwBxpEX45gC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareWalden